Materials for Two Theories: TIMN and STA:C

How and why four cardinal forms of organization — tribes, institutions, markets, networks (TIMN) — explain social evolution. How and why space-time-action cognitions (STA:C) explain people's mindsets.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Awaiting the emergence of a +N sector (Part 3 of 3) — toward a U.S. Chamber of Commons

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My December 2012 post about the concept of the commons ( here ) proposed that it might be a good idea to create a series of Chambers of C...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Awaiting the emergence of a +N sector (Part 2 of 3) — a nod to Darwinian dynamics

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TIMN purports to be a kind of theoretical framework for describing, explaining, and analyzing a lot about social evolution across the ages,...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Awaiting the emergence of a +N sector (Part 1 of 3) — an update

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I continue trying to track and verify this implication of TIMN. Accordingly, the rise of +N — i.e., information-age network forms of organi...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

ISIS and its affiliates as a global tribe waging segmental warfare — plus an implication for information strategy

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Here, for your consideration, are a “prĂ©cis” and an “excerpt” about ISIS. Later, I’ll explain how and why I’m posting it as another step in...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Brief blog update

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Well, that didn't work — i.e., those last two posts, the Part I post about whither TIMN, and the Part I post about ideological boundary...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

“Boundaries” (Part 1): a spatial predilection that distinguishes conservative from progressive mentalities?

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This post observes that sensitivities about boundaries — about identifying, respecting, and protecting them — characterizes conservative m...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Whither TIMN: an update in bits and pieces (Revised)

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Despite another prolonged abeyance, not to mention the digression about cars, this blog is still functional, still poised to provide new ma...
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David Ronfeldt
Professional status: retired from RAND since 2008. Fields: first 20 years, U.S.-Latin American security issues (Mexico, Cuba); next 15 years, worldwide implications of the information revolution (cyberocracy, cyberwar, netwar, swarming, noopolitik, the nexus-state). Current goals: finish quadriform framework about social evolution (past, present, future); finish social cognition framework about people's space-time-agency orientations. Publications: mostly online at rand.org and firstmonday.org.
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